It’s a Sunday in the Brazilian city of Recife, but a team of infectious disease, pediatric and neurology experts are working overtime, huddled in a back room of the Oswaldo Cruz Hospital. They are ...

RECIFE, BRAZIL — Ines Maria da Silva stares blankly outside her shack as she tells how she lost all five of her sons to the violence that makes Recife the deadliest major city in Brazil. The first son ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

RECIFE, Brazil (AP) – Newlywed Akiko Ishihama let out a nervous laugh when asked if she realized that she was honeymooning on a beach well known for deadly shark attacks. "Not at all," she answered as ...

RECIFE, Brazil — Brazilian doctors at the epicenter of the Zika virus crisis told GlobalPost that the number of suspected cases of microcephaly, a birth defect linked to the virus, peaked at their ...

Kleber Mendonça Filho is in the thick of the awards season trail as he campaigns with his Brazilian Oscar entry The Secret ...

Brazil’s Northeast is woefully underknown to foreign travelers. It doesn’t help perhaps that the region is made up of a series a small sliver-shaped states with names that challenge the Anglophone ...

The rainy conditions in Recife, Brazil this morning in advance of the USA-Germany match has Twitter up in arms. Here are some of the best tweets about the Recife: Recife is under water. At least 4 ...